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The Endlings gives voice and challenges
It is the hoped for job of theatre to entertain, enlighten, entrance, engage and to challenge the audience in their comfortability. This play a does all of these with a consummate panachè. The scale of the play is deftly realised by a bravura set which splashily tantalises and then reveals. Firstly, our trio of usually voiceless over 70’s actors (F) easily take the audience into their world in a comfortable ‘First Act’ whilst sowing the seeds through the understated writing. Comfortability and fourth wall-ness are then eschewed by arch gear changes which draw us in and intentionally make us cozy theatre types aware of unfinished business of our world and of the world in general. The world we see gets more zany and twisted. A show which felt similar is its disruptive narrative nature was the UK Royal Court’s The Low Road. The themes of age, legacy, and unconscious racism within liberal circles, are all woven together into a fine yet strong cloth.